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Automakers use better dummies in tests
Dec 24 2006 8:37PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - When General Motors Corp. engineer Jack Jensen started working with crash test dummies in the 1990s, the data collected from the devices was routed to recorders the size of a phone booth.
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Research In Motion 3Q profit rises
Dec 24 2006 8:37PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Shares of Research in Motion Ltd. rose nearly 2 percent Friday, a day after the BlackBerry maker said its fiscal third-quarter earnings rose 47 percent and it added 875,000 subscribers for the period.
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Battery makers recharge their lineups
Dec 24 2006 8:37PM (CT)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Batteries that can be recharged rather than tossed when the juice runs out are supposed to be more convenient for consumers. But for Wren Wright, they lose their power too quickly and unpredictably, sometimes leaving the shutterbug with a lifeless digital camera.
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Xbox gets a longer warranty
Dec 24 2006 8:37PM (CT)
REDMOND, Wash. (AP) - Microsoft Corp. is extending its warranty on the Xbox 360 video game console to one year from the previous limit of 90 days. The change announced Friday applies to future and present owners.
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Web site allows Iranian Jews to mourn
Dec 24 2006 8:37PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - As a young woman in Tehran during the 1970s, Susan Manavi never visited a cemetery, even after her grandparents were laid to rest a couple of years before Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution. Although they were buried in a Jewish cemetery near the city, Manavi's parents adhered to an Iranian cultural taboo that death and youth should be kept apart, so as not to tempt fate.
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Cuban exiles send gifts home via Web
Dec 24 2006 8:37PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A small but growing number of Cubans in South Florida are getting around the U.S. embargo that limits what can be sent to the communist island by sending their Christmas gifts through foreign Internet sites.
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Company develops virtual meal technology
Dec 24 2006 8:36PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Harvey Bumpus doesn't like to eat alone. But his wife died more than a year ago and his family is scattered across the country. Most nights, he heats up a simple meal of oatmeal or hot dogs and eats alone.
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Web 'safe' mark may elude new merchants
Dec 24 2006 8:36PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - As an online shopper, Claudia Race knows she must look out for scams. So as an Internet entrepreneur working out of her home in New Braunfels, Texas, Race wants to use all the tools available to assure customers they can trust the vacation-rentals service she is about to launch.
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